Quran Manuscript Part 18 from Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02096, containing Part 18 of the Quran. The dataset is a 2.6 GB ZIP file released under a CC0-1.0 license. The record was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze historical calligraphy and manuscript illumination styles based on the digitized pages.
• Conduct textual analysis of Quranic verses based on the manuscript's content.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suggests detailed visual fidelity.
• 2.6 GB size indicates a substantial amount of image data.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.02096.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 07:07:08; freshness should be verified.